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Steven McDermott

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About Me

Myspace Layouts Find me also at www.stevenmcdermott.com and www.storyglossia.com

Storyglossia named best online publication by Million Writers Award.

I'm an author , editor , litblogger , podcaster , and the bibliographer for the International Raymond Carver Society.

My short story collection is Winter of Different Directions.

Listen to the Winter of Different Directions podcast

My Interests

GP Nerd, literature, art, philosophy, anthropology, landscape design, guitars, backpacking, kayaking...realistically, though, writing and Storyglossia are the black holes.

I'd like to meet:

Storyglossia's authors and readers. Other writers, literary journal editors, and lit fiction junkies.

Superb short story writers. Introduce yourself by entering the Storyglossia Fiction Prize 2007 contest. First prize is $1000. Guidelines

Music:

Alice In Chains, Nirvana, Soundgarden, The Mono Men, Killswitch Engage, Shadows Fall, Metallica, Lamb of God, Wolfmother, Chevelle, Tool, Rage Against the Machine, 7 Year Bitch, Black Sabbath, Led Zepplin, Breaking Benjamin, Disturbed, Godsmack, Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day, AC/DC, Jimi Hendrix, and of course, anything Blues . . .

Movies:

Pulp Fiction, Fargo, American Beauty, Apocalypse Now, Ferris Beuhler, Galaxy Quest, anything Noir, Polanski's Macbeth . . .

Television:

Sopranos, Entourage, Big Love . . . missing Six Feet Under and Deadwood.

Books:

Robert Hughes' The Shock of the New, anything about Francis Bacon (the painter), Nietzsche, Shakespeare's tragedies, Bloom's Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, Raymond Carver, Richard Ford, Tobias Wolff, Lee K. Abbott, Darrell Spencer, Edna O'Brien, James Joyce, Gunter Grass, Hienrich Boll, Lorrie Moore, Debra Monroe, Alan Warner, Laura Hird, Irvine Welsh, Brady Udall, A. L. Kennedy, Emer Martin, Denis Johnson, Tim Winton, A. M. Homes, Barry Hannah , Stacey Richter, Steve Almond . . .

Heroes:

Thomas Jefferson and Jack Palms .

My Blog

I blog at Storyglossia

Steve's Storyglossia Litblog
Posted by Steven McDermott on Sun, 06 May 2007 08:29:00 PST